badideasinaction - 2011-07-10
Not bad...
Best guess without reading youtube comments: There's an old trick deck with oddly-sized cards that when fanned one way show pips and the other way show as blank - it's actually half a deck with the other half blank, but the blank side cards are bigger so when you fan them carefully you only see the blank cards.
He's got enough cards in the stack for all the words "Ace" through "King" and the "of" and the suits - the looking through the deck is really to flip the cards over with the right word combinations for the flourish at the end. The box makes an obvious angle to distract Penn and Teller.
The real artistry in the trick is being able to blindly pick the right group of cards to flip over and to do it casually enough that nobody notices.
Just a guess though.
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badideasinaction - 2011-07-10 Addendum - there is a card force, albeit a small one - "high card" and "low card" can let him take out a few values in the middle. Because yeah, card real-estate is at a premium.
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Spoonybard - 2011-07-10 When listing high cards, he starts at seven and goes up to king. That's more than half of the deck. At best, he can eliminate the aces as an option.
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badideasinaction - 2011-07-10 Oops, my bad. Only watched it once, and I mis-remembered him starting from nine I guess.
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Chalkdust - 2011-07-10
this show looks like a lot of fun, and damn was that a good trick
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memedumpster - 2011-07-10
Bich is Latin for generosity!
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Evilhead - 2011-07-10
Meh, he spent a couple minutes flipping, turning, and swapping a custom, unshuffled deck he had prepared beforehand with edges that can be combined to spell out most of cards in a deck. Many lonely, pony-tailed hours memorizing how to reorganize that deck results in this boring trick. No showmanship or anything surprising, just a lot of aspie sadness here.
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